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Tag Archives: Consumerism
Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Saturday Matinee: Happiness (Short Film)
Happiness – by Steve Cutts Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society By Chiara Pascali Source: GoodShortFilms Try to google the word Happiness, the first (sponsored) result of your search will be shophappiness.com. Happiness can be bought. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Consumerism, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged animation, Consumerism, culture, happiness, Short Film, society, Steve Cutts
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Two for Tuesday
Lauryn Hill
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Consumerism, Lauryn Hill, Neurotic Society
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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged american myths, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Consumerism, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Electoral System, elites, independent judiciary, Jobs, judiciary, Labor, Lee Camp, media, Oligarchy, police, police state, us democracy, Work
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
By Henry Cowles Source: Aeon Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, police state, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, George Orwell, police state, Sarah Igo, Smartphones, Social Media, Sociology, Sophia Rosenfeld, surveillance state, technology, Telescreens, TV
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Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes Given the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening. Of course, you might … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, corporatocracy, elites, environment, Fossil Fuels, Gandhi, geopolitics, Global Elites, Helsinki, NATO, NGOs, Non-Violence, Nuclear War, Peace, Progress, Putin, Social Progress, society, Trump, Violence, war
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Unsouling From the Wilderness
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Black Elk, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Education, Fast Food, Hyperreality, industrial society, Jorge Luis Borges, materialism, Meaning, media, modernity, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, Soul, spirituality, technology, wilderness
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